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Topic: Crayfish in a lake trout's stomach  (Read 4771 times)

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pmmpete

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I was recently fishing for lake trout and kokanee on Flaming Gorge Reservoir, which straddles the Utah-Wyoming border.  When I catch a fish, I like to immediately bleed and gut it before putting it on ice in a cooler, to keep the quality of its meat as good as possible.  The stomach of one lake trout I caught was packed full of crayfish.  The biggest crayfish was about the size of the end of my thumb.  The rest of them were about the size of the last joints of my fingers.

I didn't catch a lake trout which had mostly digested some crayfish, which would have been interesting to see.  But the last picture below shows some fish bones and a couple of pieces of crayfish shell which I found in the stomach of a 43 inch pike a couple of years ago.  The pike's stomach was empty except for these bones and shells.
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Helium Head

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Cool, thanks for sharing!
I met a guy who was catching large trout from the bank on Detroit Lake using crayfish parts. Where the Santiam river entered the lake. He was homeless, living in the forest and was so sick of trout that he gave it to me.  He wouldn’t take anything for it.  I had just come from a weekend at a cabin in that area and remembered I had leftover black rock fish.  I give away a lot of my catch but have never met anyone so happy to have black rock fish before.
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